ANTH 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 48: Michel Foucault, Biopower, Reproductive Rights
17 May 2017
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A system of leadership in which rulers persuade subordinates to accept the ideology of the dominant group by offering mutual accommodations that nevertheless preserve the rulers" privileged position. 1926-1984: french philosopher, social theorist, and historian of ideas, associated with both structuralist and post-structuralist movements o extremely wide-ranging influence in the humanities and social sciences. Biopower: reoccupied with the bodies of citizens and the social body itself o ex: women"s reproductive rights (birth control) Governmentality: the art of governing appropriate to promoting the welfare of populations within a state. About biopower creation of this system of policing bodies. Discipline and punish: the birth of the prison 1975. About policing of bodies combines biopower and governmentality. A panopticon, a prison designed by thomas bentham. History of sexuality (volumes i, ii, and iii) - 1976. I don"t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what i am.
